[Soooo am I the only player who finds "pets" annoying on teams?]

16 hours ago, ZemX said:

 

Really?  I find those other people perfectly capable of creating non-optimized aggro without the need for pets.

 

They're called "Pick Up Groups" 🤪

 

Not really. Because time is linear, most pick up groups are mostly comprised of veteran players.

[How are you guys RP'ing Thugs MM??]

Katabeatrix is my Thugs/Storm/Mu. She's a former Outcast and her thugs are low level mutants with useless or minimally effective combat mutations.

[Collaborative Project: A Guide to Sentinel Sets]

This thread is very helpful to me in discovering this new AT. I will be making some tweaks to my build based on this advice.

[Soooo am I the only player who finds "pets" annoying on teams?]

Conversely, I greatly enjoy when other people have pets.  I kind of dig the wrinkle they put in combat creating non optimized aggro, it keeps the very old gameplay feeling a little fresh. But hey that's just me. I'm a little bit idiosyncratic. 

 

Plus it's cool to see what people name them.

[OH MY DAYS HELLO AND THANK YOU]

Go. Hunt. Kil skuls.

[Share your Puns/amusing Character Names]

Lemme see.... I got

 

Shore-Thing, water themed Dominator (dark/earth, recolored to be water and beach litter)

Roger Macabre, pirate themed Broadsword/SR Stalker (he pronounces it muh-kob-ur, and if you argue him on this point his reply is placate, build up, assassin strike.)

Ill-Eagle, seagull man (Nul's second cousin, once removed) poisoned by radioactive oil.

 

Then of course there's the Apes of Wrath, the simian super team I never get around to actually leveling. Guerilla Gorilla, Ape-X, Kong Krete, Monkey Seer. I swap these guys into different classes and never really level them.

[Dev Diary - Piecemeal's Workshop of Horrors]

I'm excited to see where it goes.

[Tips Missions and Exploration Badges]

From experience I can tell you that hunting bosses will get them faster.

[Tips Missions and Exploration Badges]

Bosses and if you can find the EBs have a good chance to drop one, Lts and Minions have less chance but still can.

["Fun" is a Four-Letter Word]

Watching a bunch of orange numbers fly up and mobs fall down is fun.

 

Cracking jokes and keying into the collective wit of a team is fun.

 

Getting a badge notification is fun.

 

Getting a sweet loot drop is fun.

 

Making a unique costume and character concept is the most fun.

[How old are we, as a playerbase?]

40

[What does World of Warcraft do better than Cox?]

Stinking like poop from a butt.

[Tips Missions and Exploration Badges]

I don't believe the PvP zones have them, but otherwise they all do.

[Dev Diary - Piecemeal's Workshop of Horrors]

I deeply enjoyed these arcs. I wasn't able to express that at the time I played them, but yeah these are great. More like this please.

[What are you badger builds?]

12 hours ago, merrypessimist said:

Wouldn't a badger build have to be savage/something with a variant on "Wulfereen" for a name? 😁

 Teamed with a Claws/Regen on live named Badgereen for a few months. 

[What about a Redside week... month... whatever?]

Ran a red Drowning in Blood last month. Total PUG.

[Regen 3.0?]

There's a pretty solid walkthrough up forum my dude. Click the section that says Getting Started.

[Original LRSF to Oroborus]

I see no reason not to have the option.

[In game heroes]

This one is going to have to be anonymous because, well because it happened while I was on a lot of pain meds and I just didn't retain the benefactor's name.

 

So I came home back in April. I'd played religiously on live since Issue 6. Loved the game. And when it went down, I was heartbroken. So of course I came back when I got a chance invite. 

But it just wasn't the same. Even with the my old alts and money, it was just like walking in a graveyard. Like ripping up a scab that wasn't healed. So I left, for years.

 

But I got pretty sick last year. Because of Covid, we thought it was that, but it was actually something else that was harder to diagnose because of the pandemic and symptoms. So I didn't get the right treatment in a timely fashion because we pooched it on the diagnosis. So by the time we found out what was up, I was pretty rough. And after surgery I had a lot of downtime. Like a lot. And I remembered reading that the secret had gotten out awhile back and it seemed to be like fine. More than fine if anything. So there I am, on my backside, only able  to sit and read for a few weeks. 

 

So I decided to come home. And wow how much more alive it felt. Still feels. So much cool good work had been done. And there were tons of people, active events, community! I love it. But I did have to start from zero again. And sort of remind myself how to play again. I also had to rebuild my fortune from nothing. Now in many ways it's nicer now than it was before, if you know what you are doing. I knew, for example that my salvage drops would be the most important source of income. So I am watching that closely, just trying to stay in enough money to keep my SOs from falling off.

 

I get up to like level 11, rolling solo, pain meds operating at about 80%, so between being kind of high, kind of uncomfortable and kind of out of practice I have just been soloing. Well I head to the Black Market with my drops. And I am checking the prices to make sure I list appropriately. I forget what I had now. Once again, pretty loopy on the pain meds, and I don't have a great tolerance. But I do remember this; it was expensive. Listing it at slightly below the lowest bid of the last 5 was more infamy than I had total. I think it was a PVP IO. So, I laugh about it in general chat. Because that was silly to me. I used to be an ebil billionaire and now I can't even afford to list my own loot.

 

Well, I get a couple of emails to my global. 2 for the hundred thousand or so that it would cost me  to list the item. 1 for a million. And one for 10 million. No questions asked. Just helping me out. And from that foundation I built a stable base that I now run a healthy cadre of alts through. But I have to say I really appreciated that leg up, though I would never have asked for it. It just reminded me why this place feels so much like home. Why I feel like I belong here. We're good people.

 

Thanks mystery player. I wish I remembered your name. I think about that a lot when I boot the game up, several times a week. Just like the good old days.

[Pets are your new best friend]

Okay that is what I was feeling like too, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking something. So next question, does this mean that PPP's are strictly superior options to APP on Sentinels?

[Why is it so hard for me to play Red Side?]

Well Mercy is dark and gritty. And so is Grandville. So you start and end in the dark. And if you are generalizing, bookends make a powerful impression on an observer. For whatever reason, the developers thought it was important that a villain's story begins and ends in darkness. 

 

Sharkhead is also hella gritty and polluted and depending on your contacts and level path, you can spend a lot of time there.

[What are your favorite things about Sentinels?]

Well I haven't gotten one past level 11, but I like the idea of having ranged attacks and mez protection quite a lot. I hate being mezzed.

[Pets are your new best friend]

So, barring Incarnate stuff and PPPs, this only applies to Elec, right?

[Has there been talks about a "classic" server]

I can't imagine giving up what we have, the developments are so much a core part of this game's experience.

[Rogue cannot be invited.]

I just did Positron's Betrayer on my main as a rogue and had no problem Ouro Transporting to the final mission of Rule of 3. I wonder what the breaking point is? Maybe there were other Rogues on the team? Maybe team lead was a Rogue? I can't really say. Anecdotal and incomplete evidence submitted for revue though.